[fedora-java] R: Packaging of ObjectWeb ASM

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>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: mizdebsk at redhat.com
>Data: 11/11/2013 15.49
>A: <objectweb-asm-owner at fedoraproject.org>, <objectweb-asm4-
owner at fedoraproject.org>, "Fedora Java Development List"<java-devel at lists.
fedoraproject.org>
>Ogg: Packaging of ObjectWeb ASM
>
>Currently Fedora ships two versions of ObjectWeb ASM -- objectweb-asm
>(version 3.x) and objectweb-asm4 (version 4.x), neither of which are
>compat packages.  About a month ago upstream released version 5.0 beta
>and we can already start seeing packages requiring this new version.
>Final version 5.0 can be expected soon.
>
>Currently we can't get rid of ASM 3 as it is required by many packages,
>but ASM 4 and ASM 5 should be compatible, so it should be OK for Fedora
>to ship just versions 3 and 5.
>
>My proposal of updating is:
>
>1) Create a new package objectweb-asm3 which would be a copy of current
>objectweb-asm and would be converted to be a compat package.
>
>2) Give some time for maintainers of dependant packages to decide
>whether they want to stay on version 3.x or keep depending on default
>system version (which will be upgraded to 5.x).  The most important
>packages can be ported by interested parties or provenpackagers.
>
>3) Update objectweb-asm from version 3.x to version 5.x.  This version
>would obsolete and provide objectweb-asm4.
>
>4) Deprecate objectweb-asm4 package.
>
>After these steps are completed, we'll have 2 ASM packages:
>
>1) objectweb-asm, ASM version 5.x
>   default provider of ASM (non-compat package)
>   provides, obsoletes: objectweb-asm4
>
>2) objectweb-asm3, ASM version 3.x
>   compat package
>
>What do you think about that? Do you have any better idea how to proceed
>with update to ASM 5.x?
+1
>
>-- 
>Mikolaj Izdebski
>IRC: mizdebsk
>